(Warning: This story contains graphic allegations of sexual misconduct.)
It's clear now.
During Deshaun Watson's pathetic introductory news conference with the Cleveland Browns in March, as Browns general manager Andrew Berry and head coach Kevin Stefanski spoke of having confidence in "Deshaun the person," that very person claimed more than once he has "never assaulted, harassed or disrespected any woman in my life."
For good measure, he used his mother and her two sisters, his aunts, as a shield, saying that's not how they raised him. Men accused of sexual assault or any kind of wrongdoing against women almost always trot out the women in their lives as a shield, as if their existence means they couldn't possibly have done what it's asserted they did, much in the same way racists trot out their one Black friend as cover.